American Democracy Under Siege
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This Fourth of July marked the 250th birthday of a new kind of nation state — based not on ancestral ties to a land or on the territorial reach of monarchs, but on shared principles about the rights of citizens and the purpose of the state. The Founding Fathers set forth those principles in the Declaration of More The post American Democracy Under Siege appeared first on CounterPunch.org .
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